Forgotten (anti)heroes of wine: Dave West

He created Dog's Bollocks wine and the Booze Cruise, and changed British wine retailing for ever. But never got the respect he felt he deserved. He also ran a truly awful restaurant.

Some of the people who changed wine the most are among the least remembered. But not on this Substack. The poet John Betjeman claimed that P Morton Shand taught his generation to appreciate wine. He was in many ways the first modern British wine writer. His granddaughter is today the President of WineGB, Queen Camilla. Laurence Venn [free to read] argua…